From crystals to climate: New ‘gold standard’ timeline connects volcanic eruptions to climate change
October 19, 2018 ・ Liz Fuller-WrightImagine an enormous volcano erupting in the Pacific Northwest, pouring lava across Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Imagine the lava flooding out until river valleys are filled in. Until bushes and shrubs are buried in liquid rock. Until the tallest trees…
Ten graduate students named PEI Energy and Climate Scholars
September 11, 2018 ・ Holly WellesTen Princeton University graduate students have been selected by the Princeton Environmental Institute as the most recent members of the Princeton Energy and Climate Scholars Program (PECS). Founded in 2008, PECS provides an interdisciplinary platform for Ph.D. candidates working on…
Foam could offer greener option for petroleum drillers
August 9, 2018 ・ John SullivanHydraulic fracturing, or fracking, uses large amounts of fresh water while producing corresponding amounts of wastewater. Water-based foams, which use about 90 percent less water than fracking fluids, could provide an alternative, but the mechanism for foam-driven fracture is not…
Photosynthesis and engines evolved in remarkably similar ways
July 25, 2018 ・ Adam HadhazyA plant: natural, grown, leafy. An internal combustion engine: artificial, machined, metallic. At first blush, these two objects couldn’t appear less alike. Yet, according to a Princeton University study published June 29 in the journal PLoS ONE, the two complex…
PEI-STEP fellow Ryan Edwards awarded fellowship to take geosciences to D.C.
April 24, 2018 ・ Morgan KellyRyan Edwards, CEE graduate student and PEI-STEP fellow, will spend 12 months in Washington, D.C., as a William L. Fisher Congressional Geoscience Fellow
PEI awards $515,000 to projects studying our changing climate and environment
April 23, 2018 ・ Morgan KellyPEI’s Climate and Energy Challenges program has funded five new projects totaling $515,000 to study our changing climate and environment
PECS scholar, PEI-STEP fellow Tim Treuer selected as AAAS science media fellow
April 2, 2018 ・ Liz Fuller-WrightPEI-STEP fellow and PECS scholar Tim Treuer was selected as a 2018 AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellow
Combining science and service: Studying lead contamination in Trenton, N.J.
April 2, 2018 ・ Morgan KellyThe project “Urban Tap Water and Human Health” funded by PEI’s Urban Grand Challenges program combines science with community service
Historians to climate researchers: “Let’s talk”
March 19, 2018 ・ Liz Fuller-WrightHistory – and historians – can tell us a lot about how societies handle environmental upheaval.
